Morsi cared more about power than democracy

3:12 PM,
Jul. 11, 2013

Written by

DeWayne Wickham

What the events that led to the ouster of Mohammed Morsi make clear is that he cared less about the democracy movement that hoisted him into Egypt's presidency than he did his misguided efforts to replace the country's military dictatorship with a civilian president who ruled by fiat.

For more than half a century, Egypt was led by a succession of presidents culled from the ranks of its omnipotent military. That changed last year when Morsi, an Islamic fundamentalist, won that nation's first democratic election for the presidency of that North African nation.